2. Any of the above, in #1, who are in anyway financially supported by anyone who gives Erotic Services, whether the services are legal or not.

How can your son, who receives financial support from the earnings of your business, be considered as engaging in something illegal???”

Name redacted.

Here’s My Response:
Thanks for your inquiry. Its such a hot button issue and its been largely rubber stamped by many political bodies like the California State Democratic Party. the California Republican Party and the California Federation of Labor without hearing the opposition.

Prop 35 creates brand new terms that are not in the federal human trafficking statue-”commercial sex act” is just one. In Section 6(2), Prop 35 defines it as “anything of value given or received”. This new made up term clearly broadens who will be targeted for arrest for doing “commercial sex act” to cover both the illegal and legal sectors of the sex industry and beyond.

This new definition in combination with Section 7 of prop 35 -naming existing codes for prostitution related offenses 647(a) and (b)…says we’re all victims, a naming we, resist.

These definition changes in combination with the definition of who can be convicted for sex trafficking and have to register as a sex offender for the rest of their life are listed in the 12 codes named in Section 6 of Prop 35- one of which is 266(h) that states that any body ‘who is supported in part or in whole from the earnings of a prostitute’ or now some “commercial sex act” is how my son or other innocent people will be entrapped, intended or not.

The possibilities of application of these new terms will go even further….

“Perla Flores, a program manager at Community Solutions, said the measure’s training requirements are negligible and the hefty fines could provoke convicted traffickers into seeking revenge on victims or their families. Also, there is nothing in the measure, she said, to encourage nonprofits, police, city services and victims to work together.” Victims advocates oppose Proposition 35 human trafficking measure Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach & Community Solutions September 21, 2012

“CA has a good record, not a failing one, in enforcement of all manner of human slavery prosecutions. This proposition will undermine much of that work “ Prop 35 Recommendation: OPPOSE California Council of Churches-August 29, 2012